Daily Tech News 15 December 2023

• Finished up a major project at work that had taken over my life recently - a cloud migration from one crappy provider to another slightly less crappy one - involving dozens of applications, multiple database types, and over 100TB of data.
  
  Celebrated by ordering the latest edition of The Art of Computer Programming from Amazon. I already have volumes 1-3 - somewhere - but it didn't cost much more for the now five-volume full set than for just the two new volumes.
  
  Not from Amazon, anyway. A lot more elsewhere.
  
  
  
• Intel's Meteor Lake laptop chips - the real 14th generation - are out. (AnandTech)
  
  14th generation desktop chips are already here, but those are just relabeled 13th generation parts, just as some 13th generation desktop chips were relabeled 12th generation parts.
  
  How's the performance?
  
  We don't know. Intel didn't provide any review models, not to anyone.
  
  
  
• Samsung's Galaxy Book 4 range has the new Meteor Lake CPUs. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It will be available in South Korea next month, and in the rest of the world... Eventually.

• Intel has some new server CPUs as well. (Serve the Home)
  
  These do have benchmark results, and they perform well enough to make it into fourth or fifth place on some tests.
  
  Intel also has some other server CPUs but without benchmarks.
  
  And some desktop CPUs rebadged for servers also without benchmarks but we know how these ones will perform because we've had the desktop models for a couple of years now. They're... Meh.
  
  
  
• Voyager 1 has stopped talking to us. (CNN)
  
  I guess maintaining a long-distance relationship at the age of 46 might seem more effort than it is worth.
  
  Voyager 1 was last heard from on November 14, 15 billion miles from Earth.
  
  
  
• The EU Commission has filed a GDPR complaint against Twitter over microtargeting of political advertising by the EU Commission. (Notebook Check)
  
  Yes, you read that right, the EU is claiming Twitter broke the law for running the EU's own advertising.
  
  
  
• Thinks are not looking good for The Verge. (The Verge)
  
  Seriously, these people are not well.
  
  
  
• a16z - Andreeesen Horowitz - will contribute to the campaigns of any politicians willing to fight the over-regulation of the tech industry. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Fortunately Tech Crunch is here to explain that this is what the Nazis would do.

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